Use the activities in this tool to create a plan to replicate, adapt, or design an intervention to improve outcomes for children, young people, and families.

Complete this template to create, print, and share a communication plan for your change effort. 

Use this tool to help your child welfare agency develop a communication plan to support your change and implementation efforts. 

Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

Use this resource to prompt discussion and adopt a change management approach  during the development of child welfare information systems.

Hear how sharing power begins with building trusting relationships.

Hear about the experiences of sharing power between a child welfare agency leader in Nevada and a young adult with lived expertise.

Build skills in community engagement in quality improvement and enhanced data exploration. 

Use the guide and digital stories from this library with teams and individuals to advocate, inspire, support, recruit, train, and coach towards a better child welfare system. 

Meet the series cohosts as they talk about sharing lived expertise and power with child welfare agency leaders and staff.

Watch the Change and Implementation in Practice: Overview video to learn how key steps, tasks, and concepts fit together to support your agency’s change initiatives. 

Build a common understanding of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) best practices and learn how your CQI team can apply those practices as your agency works to strengthen families, deliver equitable services, and build more resilient communities.

Listen to an attorney and a parent ally, both partners with Washington State’s child welfare system, explain how parent partner programs are essential to prevention services.

Learn how to support state planning and implementation of the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS), which is required by the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183), to help children and youth in foster care experience normal childhood and adolescent activities. 

Listen to Indiana’s child welfare partners talk about making the shift to an upstream approach to prevention services possible in this short podcast.